Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

Cooke ana rr,new of Say Cooke. the fa-
nous oar6 OF Philadelphia, died at the
resi-. ...ance of his mother in Georgetown,
u. e., on the 10Th, of Bright's disease.
A CARGO oil human beings, shipped "in
bond" passed through Montreal on the
18th. The novel freight was twenty
seven Cinnamon consigned to New York
frnrs San Francisco Wheiss the train .r-
-.sscd the car eJntaiasng the human
freight was found duly sealed and the
merchandise all in good order"
FIRE broke out on the 15ah in the New
England Ship-Building Company's yard
at Bath, Me-, and threatened the destruc-
tion Of the entire pronerty. The mayor
telegraphed for aid to Portland, Lewiston
and Brunswick. The loss will reach
over 500 000
The envelope manufacturers of the
country have formed com bination to ad-
vance the price Of goods.
CHARLES CROSSE, owner of large
furniture factory and Of several buildings
in other parts of Cincinnati, com mitted
suicide on the 18th by hanging him self
with the elevator rope in the third story
of his furniture esta blishment. He was
found dead by his son, who was first to
enter the place after his father. While
he was the owner of $4,000 of property
he had recently been talking about be-
coming poverty-stricken.
THREE fatal cases of sunstroke occurred
at d ,venport, a., on the 10th, five in Phil
adelphia, three in st. Louis, three in Mil
waukee, three in Chicago, seven in Gin
cinnati, with many more at other points.
GENERAL SIR FREDERICK ROBERTS, COM
mander-in-chief of the British forces in
India, is 10 be elevated to the peerage.
QUEEN VICTORIA approves the election
of Prince Ferdinand to the Bulgarian
throne, but Russia don't.
BY an explosion of ire-damp in the
Port Royal coal mines, near West New
ton, Pa, on the 10th, four miners were Sc
riously burned, one Of them fatally.
TIE Senter House, large summer
hotel at Center Harbor on Lake Win
nipesaukee, N. H., was burned on the
10Th. The Noun tain House was also bad
ly damaged.
PRESIDENT ROBERT GARRETT of the
Baltimore & Oaio railroad has made up
his mind to sail for Europe on the 23d.
He says nothing will stop him.
JEAN P. SCOUT, who murdered his wife
fourteen years ago, was sentenced at
Green Bay, Wis, on the 10Th, to i'm
prsonment for life.
THERE is a general tightening of the
reins on the governmental money han
dlers at Washington since the Bacon
defalcation.
ST. JosEPH's Orphan Asylum in New
York took fire on the 10Th, but, fortunate
ly, not much damage was done. A panic
among the children was only averted by
the firm and prompt action of the Sisters,
aided by the police.
The count of the money in the United
States Treasury at W ashington develop
ed no shortage in U Uncle Sans big "roll."
TIE casu ilties from the railroad wreck
at Port Stanley, Olt., have been finally
figured out at about one hundred. No
further deaths have been reported.
Mrs. SADIE CHANFRAU, aged twenty
four years, the wife OF Henry T. Chan
frau, the actor, died on the 18th in the cot
tage of Mr.. II. Chanfrau at Long Branch.
JOHN ROONEY, alias Roddv Dugan,
twenty-four years old, hanged himself to
a cell door in Brot klyn Jail on the 18th.
Rooney was noted burglar and was con-
fined in Jail waiting trial on charge OF
burglary.
FAIRcHILD's jewelry store at Bridge
port, Conn, was entered on the night OF
the 10Th by burglars, who cracked the safe
aud secured $1,000 worth OF valuables.
There is no clew to the robbers
A FIRE at Peekskill, N. Y, on the 18th,
originating in the machine shop OF Nailor
Bros & Allen, destroyed large quantity
of machinery and some adjoining tene-
ments. Total loss estimated at S. 1000
THERE were reported W to midnight OF
the 18th, at Cincinnati, forty-eight cases
of sunstroke, of which eighteen were ia
tai, and at the midnight hour there were
numerous additional calls for the patrol
wagons for new cases.
JOHN W. SMITH, a prominent farmer OF
Canajoharie, N. Y, was gored by bull
and probably fatally hurt He was badly
cut up and his clothes were entirely
stripped from his person.
By an accident on fruit car in Owen
township, Indiana, on the 18th, three men
were killed and one was badly injured.
THE President and Mrs. Cleveland were
greeted most cordially by the people along
their route in the trip through Central
New York on the 18th.
A ROW has occurred bet ween the Sultan
Of Turkey and his cabinet. The Grand
Vizier has resigned.
Mr.. BLAINE had not, on the 18th, fully
determined whether he would attend the
JlaQ StOQ1du mGctiuS III tuC iutCt Cou "a
Ireland at London on the 21st He had
received pressing invitation to be pres
ent.
Mrs. JAMES SMITH, of Four Mile Run,
near Pitts burgh, Pa, WIS fatally burned
and her hus band and sister-in-law, Annie
Smith, quite seriously injured on the
evening of the 18th, by an explosion OF
can of kerosene.
FoRrY-Two cases of cholera and twenty
five deaths were reported at Catania on
the 18th. Of III soldiers already at
tackled, sixty-two have died. An exodus
of the inha bi tants is beginning.
THE wooden and carding mills at st.
Hyacinthe, Can, and the Royal Electric
Light Company's buildings were burned
on the 18Th. The granite mills were bad
ly damaged. The loss is $4,000; partly
insured.
MR.. AND Mrs. WIN. WILLIAMS, OF South
ern California, arrived at Saratoga, n.
Y, q few days since and stopped at
sanitarium. A few hours after reaching
there Mrs. Williams was taken violently
insane, and her husband has taken her TO
New York City for treatment.
BALTIMORE, Nd, and vicinity was
visited by terrific rain, thunder and
p